The Grip 2017 © Jonathan Hobin (www.jhobin.com)
Jonathan Hobin is an award-winning and internationally noted photo-based artist from Canada. His work draws from iconic literary, cinematic, and historical references and popular culture to explore the darker aspects of childhood, storytelling, and politics. Considered a controversial figure and ‘one of Canada’s most polarizing visual artists’ (CBC’s Q), Hobin’s work is exhibited internationally and has been the subject of lectures at a number of prestigious institutions including the National Photography Museum of Finland and Oxford University.